Hollywood has delivered a few father / son battles over the years -
Luke vs Phil
Darth Vader vs Luke
NOW - THE 2026 HOPSKI BRINGS TO YOU AN EXCLUSIVE
TOM WOJT VS TRISTAN WOJT
Indeed, for the first time in Hopski History, we have a father vs son final for the crown!! Click Clack Speedys Back (Tom Wojt, international tax guru and former Warsaw expat - back home now in Long Island) vs PickupTryhard! (Tristan - son of Tom - soon to be a college freshman playing football at Ithaca College). No question about where the Commish would place a bet in a physical battle between these two, I saw his Dad leave a chain of welts on his cousin at an Oktoberfest induced death match in their hotel room - the chain being ripped off the fridge to be used as a weapon of whip!!! This man knows what it means to use all resources in a death match. And in this soon to be settled battle, Father seems to know best as he will take the Hopski title if the Michigan Wolverines dispose of the UConn Huskies! On the flip side - Dad will still get 2nd if UConn wins and it will be quite a haul for the Wojt household in this year's Hopski!!
Its Simple. I WIN. Google Me from the Commish needs a Michigan victory to secure runner-up this year. It's easily my first competitive year in about 20 years..... a mere coincidence from the birth of the first of three daughters??!! This would be the first podium for THE HOPSKI after Championships in 1999 and 2002. Geesh - that is almost as bad as Indiana's fall from grace (in basketball of course!).
A-Train & Aaron Weller (Seymour, Indiana and IU alum - also a dominant force at the HPER during our college days) look for another Hopski 1st - back to back 3rd place finishes!
The other potential podium winner with a UConn win is Blue Wave Sweep 30-0 (Susan Eslick of Denver, CO - another IU alum and former neighbor of the Commish in the post-IU Chicago days back at 952 Montana Ave!). Susan also picked up 2nd place back in 2007!
As mentioned Saturday, Niparoo 10 and Amy Kenney are going for an unprecedented 3-Peat as Toilet Bowl "Winner", needing to lose the tiebreaker to dbar (Deb Baratz, an Iowa alum - boy you will have some great basketball to enjoy for year's to come from BOTH programs and a resident of NYC), as both are sitting on 56 points in this year's pool. Niparoo 10 picked 146 total points and dbar forecast 157. Whichever one LOSES the tiebreaker takes the title and by my calculation (@JackBell - Pool Auditor - please check this!), Niparoo 10 will lose if the point total is 152 or more.
Dbar can pull a unique double this year, as with a Michigan victory, Debbie will take the 2nd Chance Dance title! The Karabman#2 from Don King (Rocky Hill, CT resident and winner of 3rd place as a rook in the 2022 Hopski in 20 is pulling in more ways than one presumably for a UConn title to take the 2nd Chance Dance!
Good luck to all of the Hopskis and MAKE SURE you have paid (I will hunt you down if not as soon as I have time to review payments!!!).
The remainder of the standings:
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